---
title: Using the models without apollo-runtime
---

`apollo-runtime` and `ApolloClient` provide support for doing the network requests and interacting with the cache, but you can use the generated models and parsers without the runtime and use your network layer of choice for the HTTP calls.

For this, remove the `com.apollographql.apollo:apollo-runtime` dependency and replace it with:

```kotlin title="build.gradle"
implementation("com.apollographql.apollo:apollo-api:5.0.0-alpha.3")
```

## Composing an HTTP request body

To compose an HTTP POST request body to be sent to your server, use `composeJsonRequest`:


```kotlin
/**
 * jsonRequest contains data to be sent to the server
 * {
 *  "query": ...
 *  "variables": ...
 *  "extensions": ...
 * }
 */
val body = buildJsonString {
  query.composeJsonRequest(this, customScalarAdapters)
}

/**
 * Send it to your backend
 */
val httpResponse = sendHttpRequest(
  "POST",
  "https://com.example/graphql",
  "application/json",
  body
)
```

## Parsing an HTTP response body

To parse a network response into the type safe models, use `parseJsonResponse`:

```kotlin
/**
 * jsonResponse should contain a json with data and possibly errors:
 * 
 * {
 *  "data": ...
 *  "errors": ...
 *  "extensions": ...
 * }
 **/
val jsonReader = httpResponse.body.source().buffer().jsonReader()
val response = operation.parseJsonResponse(jsonReader)

println(response.data)
```

## Composing an HTTP response body

For your integration tests, you can also compose a complete response from a programmatically built `data`. For this, use `composeJsonResponse`:

```kotlin
/**
 * Build a fake data object
 **/
val data = SomeQuery.Data(...)

/**
 * jsonResponse contains a json with data and possibly errors:
 * {
 *  "data": ...
 *  "errors": ...
 *  "extensions": ...
 * }
 **/
val jsonResponse = buildJsonString {
  operation.composeJsonResponse(this, data)
}

mockServer.enqueue(jsonResponse)
```
